<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(46, 43, 36);" class=""><span style="color: #000000" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(46, 43, 36);" class=""><span style="color: #000000" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(46, 43, 36);" class=""><span style="color: #000000" class="">“</span> …. one aspect of climate science that’s more prominent in this report than previously is the concept of climate tipping points, which are mentioned <a href="https://twitter.com/DrRobBellamy/status/1424673605355515906" class="">97 times in this report</a>, compared to 27 times in the previous assessment dating back to 2013.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(46, 43, 36); min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(46, 43, 36);" class="">“‘The IPCC is strongly talking about tipping points,’ Stephan Singer, a senior climate advisor with Climate Action Network International, told <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09082021/global-climate-panels-report-no-part-of-the-planet-will-be-spared-ipcc-science-cop-extremes/" class="">Inside Climate News.</a> </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(46, 43, 36);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(46, 43, 36);" class="">“ ‘We can’t rule out significant forest diebacks and ice sheets falling apart, or other things that can feed back and make the warming even worse.”</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(46, 43, 36);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(46, 43, 36);" class="">" We’re playing Russian roulette with five bullets in the gun.’ ”</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(46, 43, 36); min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(46, 43, 36);" class=""><a href="https://grist.org/science/un-ipcc-climate-report-tipping-points-melting-permafrost/" class="">https://grist.org/science/un-ipcc-climate-report-tipping-points-melting-permafrost/</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(46, 43, 36); min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class="">—————————————————</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The Washington Post August 13, 2021</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 24, 24); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">‘This is a very dangerous combination’: New study says wildfire smoke linked to increased covid cases, deaths</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(65, 65, 65);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Harvard University researchers studied more than 90 counties in the West that were hit hard by wildfires in 2020.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 24, 24); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #181818" class="">By <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/joshua-partlow/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class="">Joshua Partlow</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(65, 65, 65);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Yesterday at 4:35 p.m. EDT</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(65, 65, 65); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(65, 65, 65);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">1st 3 paragraphs</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 24, 24); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">In a new study published on Friday, a team of researchers at Harvard University found evidence that exposure to elevated levels of fine particle pollution found in wildfire smoke may have led to thousands more<b class=""> </b>cases of covid-19 and more deaths among those who tested positive for the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/coronavirus/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(18, 45, 129);" class="">coronavirus</span></a>.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">In some counties in California and Washington state hit particularly hard by wildfires last year, the study, published in the journal Science Advances, concluded that nearly 20 percent of the covid-19 cases were linked to elevated levels of wildfire smoke. The researchers also found that an even higher percentage of deaths could be linked to wildfire smoke in certain counties.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 24, 24); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“Clearly, we see that, overall, this is a very dangerous combination,” Francesca Dominici, a professor of biostatistics at Harvard and one of the authors of the study, said of the interplay between smoke and covid-19. </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0f" class="">“It’s a really scary thing as we continue to face these wildfires all around the world.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(46, 43, 36); min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class="">—————————————————</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(15, 15, 15);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Greenhouse gas emissions must peak within 4 years, says leaked UN report</b></span></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(15, 15, 15);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Group of scientists release draft IPCC report as they fear it will be watered down by governments</span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(46, 43, 36);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/12/greenhouse-gas-emissions-must-peak-within-4-years-says-leaked-un-report" class="">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/12/greenhouse-gas-emissions-must-peak-within-4-years-says-leaked-un-report</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(46, 43, 36);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(46, 43, 36);" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(16, 60, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(251, 2, 7); color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class="">—————————————————</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(16, 60, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(251, 2, 7); color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class=""><br class=""></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(16, 60, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CBMihgFodHRwczovL3d3dy50ZWNobm9sb2d5cmV2aWV3LmNvbS8yMDIxLzA4LzA5LzEwMzE0NTAvdGhlLXVuLWNsaW1hdGUtcmVwb3J0LXBpbnMtaG9wZXMtb24tY2FyYm9uLXJlbW92YWwtdGVjaG5vbG9naWVzLXRoYXQtYmFyZWx5LWV4aXN0L9IBigFodHRwczovL3d3dy50ZWNobm9sb2d5cmV2aWV3LmNvbS8yMDIxLzA4LzA5LzEwMzE0NTAvdGhlLXVuLWNsaW1hdGUtcmVwb3J0LXBpbnMtaG9wZXMtb24tY2FyYm9uLXJlbW92YWwtdGVjaG5vbG9naWVzLXRoYXQtYmFyZWx5LWV4aXN0L2FtcC8?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">The UN climate report pins hopes on carbon removal technologies that barely exist</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(19, 19, 21); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">MIT Technology Review</span></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(46, 43, 36); min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class="">—————————————————</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class="">Get your smile here :</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 233); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.politico.com/cartoons/2021/08/13/the-nations-cartoonists-on-the-week-in-politics-000248?slide=2" class="">https://www.politico.com/cartoons/2021/08/13/the-nations-cartoonists-on-the-week-in-politics-000248?slide=2</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class="">—————————————————</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(16, 60, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEJnwxfl3un3mJEOor_nrHC0qGQgEKhAIACoHCAowocv1CjCSptoCMPrTpgU?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">How extreme weather is making food more expensive</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(16, 60, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBwgKMKHL9QowkqbaAg?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">CNN</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(19, 19, 21); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class="">—————————————————</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“The probability of simultaneous drought across multiple regions is increasing”, explains Franziska Gaupp of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria. </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #1a1a1a" class="">“Concurrent crop losses in major production regions can cause price spikes and have cascading effects on food access, famine and food riots.” </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">OPEN ACCESS pdf</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(16, 60, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01111-9.pdf" class="">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01111-9.pdf</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(16, 60, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class="">—————————————————</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(65, 65, 65); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The Washington Post Aug. 11, 2021</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Where America’s developed areas are growing: ‘Way off into the horizon’</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(16, 60, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #181818" class="">By <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/zach-levitt/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(16, 60, 192);" class="">Zach Levitt</span></a> and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/jess-eng/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(16, 60, 192);" class="">Jess Eng</span></a></span></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 24, 24); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(16, 60, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/land-development-urban-growth-maps/?" class="">https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/land-development-urban-growth-maps/?</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(65, 65, 65); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #414141" class=""><b class="">Opening sentence :</b> “</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Between 2001 and 2019, the built-up landscape of America — buildings, roads and other structures — has expanded into previously undeveloped areas ... “</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Concluding sentence :</b> “You have more growth in some of these areas and then you have the incredibly uncertain impact of climate change … it’s either not good or very bad.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class="">—————————————————</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class="">Climate change both decreases and increases the well-known cooling effect of volcanic eruptions</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“They found that for large eruptions like Mount Pinatubo, which typically occur once or twice per century, climate change will cause the plumes to rise higher and the aerosols to spread faster over the globe, resulting in a cooling effect amplified by 15%. Changes in ocean temperatures are expected to further amplify the cooling, and the melting of ice sheets is also projected to increase volcanic eruptions frequency and size in places such as Iceland.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“However, for moderate-sized eruptions such as the 2011 Nabro eruption in Eritrea, which typically occur on a yearly basis, the effect will be reduced by about 75% under a high-end warming scenario. This is because the height of the tropopause – the boundary between the troposphere and the stratosphere above it – is predicted to increase, making it harder for volcanic plumes to reach the stratosphere.”</span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(16, 60, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/924989" class="">https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/924989</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(16, 60, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class="">—————————————————</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(16, 60, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiPmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnNjaWVuY2VkYWlseS5jb20vcmVsZWFzZXMvMjAyMS8wMy8yMTAzMDQxMzM0NTcuaHRt0gEA?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">Will climate change outpace species adaptation? Species evolve heat tolerance more slowly than cold tolerance</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(19, 19, 21); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Science Daily</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(19, 19, 21); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Mar 4</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(19, 19, 21); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> <b class="">The evolution of critical thermal limits of life on Earth</b>. <i class="">Nature Communications</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 49, 99); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #262626" class="">DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21263-8" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #043163" class="">10.1038/s41467-021-21263-8</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(19, 19, 21); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(19, 19, 21); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">OPEN ACCESS pdf</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(16, 60, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21263-8.pdf" class="">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21263-8.pdf</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class="">—————————————————</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“For example, from 1986 to 1988, a severe drought in India ... loss of food drove elephants to new human-dominated areas, which led to rapid increases in crop damage and fatal attacks on people (<i class="">3</i>). The same drought event in India saw a marked increase in livestock losses to lions, and human fatalities from lion attacks rose by more than 600% in one region to 6.7 deaths per year following the drought (<i class="">3</i>). More recently in 2018, a prolonged drought in Botswana saw some of the highest incidences of livestock depredations by large carnivores on record, compounding drought-induced food and economic insecurity in agricultural and pastoral communities (<i class="">4</i>).” </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Human-wildlife conflict under climate change </b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Climate change is intensifying conflicts between people and wildlife </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Science July 30, 2021</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class="">—————————————————</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 27);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiZGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lm5iY25ld3MuY29tL3NjaWVuY2UvZW52aXJvbm1lbnQvanVseS13YXMtZWFydGgtcy1ob3R0ZXN0LW1vbnRoLXJlY29yZC1ub2FhLXNheXMtbjEyNzY3NjTSASxodHRwczovL3d3dy5uYmNuZXdzLmNvbS9uZXdzL2FtcC9uY25hMTI3Njc2NA?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">July was Earth's hottest month on record, NOAA says<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #18191b" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 27);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">NBC News</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class="">—————————————————</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">"Precipitation is just the supply side," said study coauthor Jason Smerdon, a Lamont-Doherty paleoclimatologist. "Temperature is on the demand side, the part that dries things out."</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">"If we don't see it coming in stronger in, say, the next 10 years, we might have to wonder whether we are right," said Marvel. "But all the models are projecting that you should see unprecedented drying soon, in a lot of places."</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 233); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #262626" class=""><<<a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/eiac-ssf042919.php" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 233);" class="">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/eiac-ssf042919.php</span></a>>></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class="">—————————————————</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> “I just want it to be clear that the mainstream environmental movement has been asking very little of people for decades.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“There’s no element of, ‘We are in an emergency. We all need to do more than what we’re doing.” </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Extinction Rebellion’s radical philosophy</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">July 22 2019</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(16, 60, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/the-radical-philosophy-of-extinction-rebellion-5857d3955b57/" class="">https://thinkprogress.org/the-radical-philosophy-of-extinction-rebellion-5857d3955b57/</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class="">—————————————————</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">A recent Ambio article by some heavyweights in climate sets out the situation well enough. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">A team including the likes of Will Steffen, Paul Crutzen, Veerabhadren Ramathan, Johan Rockstrom, Marten Scheffer and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber begin the abstract of their article by saying “Over the past century, the total material wealth of humanity has been enhanced …” </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">They end it saying,“we risk driving the Earth System onto a trajectory toward more hostile states from which we cannot easily return.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Their analysis is echoed across the scientists side of the situation. But it doesn’t take a scientist to get the drift of what’s going on. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Liam Denning is former investment banker, former editor of one of the Wall Street Journal’s most closely read columns —Heard on the Street — and a former columnist for Financial Times. Writing about need for the Green New Deal, Denning has come to the conclusion that, “We have built our standard of living on forms of energy that we now know pose a threat to our very existence,” and that, “this is a conversation that is long overdue — and necessarily begins with a shout, not a whisper.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/14/heat-and-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/" class="">https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/14/heat-and-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class="">—————————————————</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 23, 24);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">“The emerging view that … tree species have rather inflexible damage thresholds, particularly in terms of water stress, is especially concerning." </span></p>
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</table><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class="">—————————————————</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">A core question: What is “resilience”?</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">2018</b> — “Resilience is a popular narrative for conservation and provides an opportunity to communicate optimism that ecosystems can recover and rebound from disturbances.” (Emily S. Darling</span><span style="vertical-align: 4.0px; font-kerning: none" class=""> </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><i class="">and </i>Isabelle M. Côté, Science, March 2, 2018). </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">2014</b> — “Emerging from a wide range of disciplines, resilience in policy-making has often been based on the ability of systems to bounce back to normality, drawing on engineering concepts. This implies the return of the functions of an individual, household, community or ecosystem to previous conditions, with as little damage and disruption as possible following shocks and stresses” (Tanner et al, Nature Climate Change, December 18, 2014). </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">1938</b> — Resilience. 1- The act or power of springing back to a former position or shape. 2. The quantity of work given back by a body that is compressed to a certain limit and then allowed to recover itself, as a spring under pressure suddenly relaxed.” (Funk & Wagnall’s New Standard Dictionary of the English Language, vol.2, M-Z 1938</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div></body></html>